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...less Mom, they say, would result in greater equality, not only for parents but also for the next generation. This is fine in theory, but the actual how-to-do-it has remained a puzzle. Now the first real guide to nonsexist child raising has appeared: Letty Cottin Pogrebin's innovative and exhaustive Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80's (McGraw-Hill; $15.95). Even the eminent Dr. Benjamin Spock, who invented modern parenting, describes the book as "essential" for rearing liberated children...
...revised version was carried with virtual unanimity by delegates who had split bitterly on other issues. Exulted Liz Carpenter, leader of ERAmerica, the group spearheading the amendment ratification drive: "We can no longer be accused of being a middle-class white women's cause." New Yorker Letty Cottin Pogrebin recalled seeing a black delegate wearing an orange armband in support of lesbian rights, a button favoring abortion and a pro-ERA button. Originally, the delegate had worn only one insignia, that backing the ERA. Said Pogrebin: "She was the best example of the progress of those three days in Houston...
...tale or a women in her mid-30's who leaves her husband and runs around Southern California screwing a score of men. In this she finds her freedom; her husband begs her to return to him and she tells him to get lost. In other articles, Letty Cottin Pogrebin quotes 42 women on how to cool off an over-amorous boss and across two pages "the readership" praises "the unsung heroes" of the women's movement--who are, without exception men who help their wives with the housework...
Gender Freedom. Ms. also contains a bristly, jargon-loaded attack on sexist child rearing by Author Letty Cottin Pogrebin (How to Make It in a Man's World). She roundly condemns "sex-stereotyped" toys, books, games and emotions (girls are "cuddled," boys "rough-housed") that reinforce "role rigidity" and inhibit "gender freedom." Pogrebin takes TV commercials particularly to task for imparting to children the dictum that ruggedness makes the man and prettiness the woman...
...sold more than 350,000 hard-cover copies and 6,000,000 more in paperback. Helen Gurley Brown's guide for swingers, Sex and the Single Girl sold about 2,500,000 copies In each case Gais, assisted by his promotion department, a fetching blonde named Letty Cottin Pogrebin, spent more than $80,000 on advertising...